Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-10-20
FRESH FASHION NOTES.
Hints and Sugges tiOns Concerning the
Latest Novelties In Feminine Dress.
New jackets are much braided.

The newest red shade is old rose.
Ribbons are much used for dress
decorations.
We are to have another season OF
checkered wOols
Gobelin blue is the fashionable
cerulean tint this fall.
The Parisians are wild over vieuG
rose Gold rose) color.
Dots, big and little, appear on some
of the new fall fabrics.
Bengalines come in soft, dull finish.
with larger rops, this season.
All shades of yellow are used to
brighten the effect Of dark fabrics.
Jackets have close coat-sleeves,
with buttons and buttonholes at the
wrist.
New hats in felt and beaver or hat
ter's plush come in all the new dark
and light colors.
Lace scarf strings appear on some
of the imported French bonnets of
velvet and plush.
Ashes of roses is revived among the
new gray tints, and takes the name of
Malmaison gray.
There are many shades of Gobelin
blue, ranging from Sevres to gray
blues Of various gradations.
Cocks plumes, much curled, are
seen in quantities on early importa-
tions of hats and bonnets.
Checks, bars, herring bone and
chevron weaves mark the bulk of the
wooden importations this fall.
The hideous fashion of rasse terre
skirts scraping the street pavements in
the back threatens to return.
The new felt bonnets are so soft that
the fabric is made up in plaits over a
frame, just like plush or velvet.
Zgzag stripes, bars and checks in
vanishing effects appear on the new
rough and woolly cloths for fall wear.
The favorite colors in straight, up
right feathers on round hats are old
rose, bronze green and almond shades.
The tailor gown is relegated to its
proper place this season, being the suit
for morning, not afternoon wear, for
utility, not dress occasions.
Moire broche antique is new silk
with broche effects in velvet and plush,
cut and uncut pile, watered grounds
of dull finish and long, bold wave
waterings.
Girdles of ropes, of beads, of passe'
menterie, and of seal and plush are tc
replace those of metal saddle girth and
leather that have been worn this sum
mer.
Double loose-front jackets
or coats are shown for rough-weathel
wear. They are loose and comfort
able, but set in we'll to the figure il
the back.
A Gobelin gray dress, with pare
ments and accessories of helotrope ant
canary color and felt bonnet to match
is a much-admired Partisan toilet fo
country wear.
New wooden black novelties hav,
bars, dots, corded, and plush and vel
vet effects on diagonal, rep, cashmere
woven, chevron, herring bone and di
agonal grounds.
Straight, Upright feathers, mostl,
the wing and tail quilts of the domesti
fowl, are considered the most stylisl
decoration for French and Englisl
round hats.
Crinoline, long demi-trained frocks
and all the discomfort and nastiness O
that style of dress is threatened b,
French dressmakers, but deprecated b,
English women.
} The high novelty in silks is peau d
sote (silk skin), a fine, close, satin
woven silk, dull and lusterless, ex
quisitely soft and plant, with goo'
body and firm texture
The latest fancy in bonnets in Pari
are of soft, fine, light felt, with modei
ately high crowns set up very straight
and peaked brims of rather large siz
projecting over the forehead.
The gradations in colors and the dan
ing combinations of the same in mi1
lures, stripes, bars, checks and broch
effects are the features in fall imports
tions of wooden stuffs, silks and We
vets.
, Corsages are as long as ever, CT
shorter on the hips, with longer point
, in front and narrower positions in tn
/, back, narrower waistcoats and fulle
draperies and trimmings on the bodic,
, Old tapestry colors in unending v,
, riety appearin all the new brooches an
figured goods, silks, velvets, plushe
, millinery stuffs and ribbons, wheths
r for bonnets or dress accessories.
g New green shades that come in blr
n tints take the name Of Rhone, ocea
S and serpent Then there are love
f shades of tapestry, Aubusson or folias
= greens, and dark ivy and hunter
r greens.
s All skirts are double, both skirts al
d long and plain, the upper one slashe
on one or both sides. showing panel
d and the drapipg amounts to mere RI
|. pies. effecting just enough of loopir
o to show a small part of the underskir
: Most of the wooden mixtures for Il
IS incoming season are smooth finishe
but there is no lack of rough al
It woolly surfaced. knotted. corded, tut
ed, bourette. velvet and plush effect
thrown in among the woolen high no
e elites intended for parts of costumes.
y Fine whipcord diagonals of ligl
4 weight. not heavier than cashmere
, vailings. come in all the new shades
= dark. sober, bright and pale eoloring
and ara intended for eomhinat &c